Originally Posted By Darkbeer Friday, October 20th photos <a href="http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/gallery/2030129" target="_blank">http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/ga llery/2030129</a> Pummba is still offering Free Parking, even though the Timon work is finished Anaheim Garden Walk preparation The Timon Parking Lot entrance on Harbor Blvd has been reopened, and the painting walls and tarps have been removed The Disneyland Wait Board has new individual sign pieces (the old ones weren't in the best of shape). One 50th Logo remains in the park A look at the Sub Lagoon and Autopia work PhotoPass comes to DCA. It will be at Disneyland as soon as the fine tune the system at DCA. More photos of the Midway Mania construction, including the look backstage while riding Screamin'
Originally Posted By teddibubbles what IS photo pass? what is it used for? We allready have a photi on our APs .
Originally Posted By Darkbeer PhotoPass is something that started in WDW... <a href="http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/special/specialindex?id=DisneyPhotoPassPage" target="_blank">http://disneyworld.disney.go.c om/wdw/special/specialindex?id=DisneyPhotoPassPage</a> Currently, it is in its starting stage at DCA, and the only option is to buy photos the same day, and you buy them at the old Kodak stands. They hope to get the entire system up and running in the next couple of months
Originally Posted By teddibubbles oh. ok Thank you Darkbeer! I hope all is good with you! Thank you again for photo updates! I wouldnt know WHAT is happening without your pictures!
Originally Posted By debtee Thanks for the pix Darkbeer! I've always wanted to have the courage to take some pix while on screamin but I pike each time! Yours came out great! I like the new PhotoPass system that's a Fab idea. We always buy those pix for a memory to take home and are forever handing over bits of tatty paper at the end of the day to some poor CM that has to search for all the pix one by one, this has to save heaps of time for everyone! Thanks for keeping us up to date once again.
Originally Posted By dresswhites anyone else underwhelmed by the entry arch? with all the work, i was expecting a little more bling.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^I think that the current City of Anaheim Sign laws really limit what Disney is allowed to do re the arch....
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's amazing that they painted it blue, instead of keeping that ugly orange that they used on the shuttle drop off area recently. Does this mean that they might repaint that again soon? I'm not really sure about the confetti being gone. I kind of liked it, but it just looks really boring now that it's gone. I think it should have some sort of design up there, since it is so huge and dull looking right now. For the wait board, I noticed yesterday that Indy isn't on it. I don't know if that is new or it's always been like that or what, but that surprised me. It's also good to see that they are starting to paint the lagoon. And there's still the projected Mickey 50 on the curtain in the Steve Martin show, if we are keeping track of the 50th things around the park. Do you know why the parks were so crowded yesterday? I only got to the AP Renewal center in DCA, since a friend was renewing, but it seemed to have a healthy crowd around 1:30. Then we headed over to DL, where it was packed. By the time we got over to Indy (probably about 1:50), the FP return time was 6:20, and standby was 65 minutes. When we went over to HMH, the FP's were gone (around 4:00) and the standby wait was 80 minutes. The Roger Rabbit FP's were gone by 3:45, and the standby line was 60 minutes, and the line for POTC had been routed onto the Fantasmic! viewing area in the middle of the path, where it reached the pirate show stage. Was there something going on that I didn't know about, or is this just an overwhelming response to the HalloweenTime stuff I noticed several kids dressed up, so that may have something to do with it, but I also noticed more people without kids than I usually see.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer As for the crowds, I wasn't there yesterday, but went to a wedding last night, and a friend who works Jungle Cruise did a 6 hour shift, and told me they start to use both halves of the loading line early (around 9:30 AM) and was busy the entire time she was there. As for why, I think a big part of it (and why you noticed less kids than normal) was the large mailer that Disney sent out to Southern Californian residents that had a free 1 day ParkHopper voucher good from October 1st thru November 15th. Add to that the fact that Disney has been pushing the Halloween Time event to AP holders, which is driving extra AP visits in a short time period (5 weeks)....
Originally Posted By JohnnyG Darkbeer, photos 16-20, what is that area being developed into, and where in the Disney community is that located?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer You are looking at the Anaheim Garden Walk construction, a private development of shopping, dining, hotels and time shares. It is located just across the street from the Pummba parking lot, basically just east of the Harbor Blvd. entrance to the Timon Lot. <a href="http://www.anaheimgardenwalk.com/" target="_blank">http://www.anaheimgardenwalk.c om/</a>
Originally Posted By teachin On the garden walk site it says by disney's newly announced third park. What is disney's newly announced third park?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer There has been no announcement by Disney regarding a third park for Anaheim. Sounds like the Garden Walk site is in error.
Originally Posted By bean the site is refering to the 2001 announcements of Disney's third gate announcement for 2010. The park was pushed back and might not happen for quite awhile. Iger has expressed his opinion about no new gates for either domestic resorts. He is more interested in oversea park expansion. Disney does have plans for this property.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I love the graphics used for these types of presentations. Must be very exciting for an architect to see his work like this before the dirt is being moved. As for the actual center -- it looks to be sort of Paseo Colorado meets Horton Plaza -- but not as interesting. Certainly not as intersting to look at as The Grove. And while I suppose it's exciting for the City of Anaheim, it is afterall, just a shopping center.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "PhotoPass is something that started in WDW..." They've been doing this at Great America for at least 10 years now. I always found the photo takers annoying for some reason.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby <<"PhotoPass is something that started in WDW..." They've been doing this at Great America for at least 10 years now. I always found the photo takers annoying for some reason.>> You can buy your photos online up to multiple weeks after your visit at Great America? The photo-takers, of course, I believe that. But the true genius of PhotoPass at WDW is that you buy your photos from home online - no standing in line at the parks.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Are there less expensive photo purchase options when done online? Those $$ can really add up at the parks. We've only ever used the service for Mickey's Barn photos and a Castle shot during a holiday visit (aside from the varied Space Mountain, Tower of Terror and Splash Mountain shots that are purchased on site at the attractions, of course).
